Friday

This wonderful shopping paradise is situated in a beautiful old building in Newport Pagnell's High Street, combining Vintage, Antiques, Handmade, Curios and Collectibles. Treasure troves of one-off hand-made beauties await, the like of which you'll never find again. It's difficult, I know, because so far while supplying my delicious handmade notebooks (upstairs), I've eyeballed their kitchenalia, furniture, clothing, crafts, bottles of wonder, cameras, mirrors, jewellery, and cushions. I bought a light, and it is the best light you ever saw in your life, now proudly and uniquely lighting up my punked-up kitchen.

And more! No 38 were finalists in The National Vintage Awards 2015, and finalists in the Milton Keynes Business Achievement Awards - best independent retailer - so they are just about a perfect match for independent minds needing a fix of the totally unique.

As you can see, Knicker Drawer Note Books is pretty much thrilled. I'm on a slow and steady pop-in-with-new-stock-routine (unless I'm ill, on holiday, or mobbed by teenagers), so the books you'll find should change routinely. Going to the shop today are these three graces - one for eternity, one for the garden, and one for the sea. Enclosed in all, are love, love, love.

Or the book belonging to a character you'd most like to meet from story, film, game or alter-life?

Perhaps a Knicker Drawer Book is simply a unique creation, made to hold an item that expresses you, and you alone?

But it's probably the most fun and whimsical note book you'll ever own.

For a Knicker Drawer note book is all of these: it's a place to keep the precious things of your everyday experience, whether they are daily jottings, fragile letters, your youthful billet doux, an old journey ticket, memories of good and bad times, a card from a time you want to remember, your poetry, or the heirloom recipe in grandma's handwriting.

Thank goodness you can buy Knicker Drawer Note Books!

Made with love for those of us with privacies to protect, fantasies to cherish, and life moments to save for quiet contemplation.

I can make a Knicker Drawer book for you. My first Feelings Book was made to support therapy work. Since then, I make Knicker Drawer Note Books for fun, love, and all your delightful quirks, peculiarities, and madnesses. Find them here.

Visit the quirkiest emporium in Stony Stratford: place of history on the Roman Road, the old coaching home to the Cock and Bull story, and now the happiest hunting ground for your Knicker Drawer Essential Note Book. Enjoy the artisan ice cream on the High Street. xx

What they Say

They're like books of poetry. Only we have to supply the words.

I am blown away... I really didn't expect it to be this fantastic in my hands.

I want it.

Original and beautiful.

Wonderful unique product.

I'm coming over a bit emotional.

Stunning. Stunning. Stunning.

You should sell these in Liberty's.

You should sell these in Covent Garden.

You should be in Vogue.Perfect.

Amazing.

Wow.I'm totally happy with it ... I actually squealed.

I'm addicted.

Every woman should have a KnickerDrawer NoteBook.

The other Orcs will be so jealous.Thank you so much for my lovely books. The photos do not do them justice, they are absolutely beautiful in real life. Thank you so much, I will treasure them.

You helped make the 18th birthday really special, thank you!

I've never owned such a fun book, and I love all the care with which every part has been put together, even down to the non-conformist paper clips.It's one of those things you have to have in life.

I love it! I feel like a kid again!

I'm grateful to you for making such a beautiful journal for my best friend. She was simply blown away by it all.

Once again you have taken my mishmash of ideas and turned them into something amazing!

Thank you soooooo much for creating the perfect gift for my dear friend.

The designs are beautiful, and the product is inspirational.This one. This one is My Book.

I've now got six. Is that normal?

Beautiful, generous, creative in all kinds of ways ... both contains and enhances my objects wonderfully. Each time I go through it, I see something else.

You have done it again, reduced me to tears, they are amazing! Thank you soooooooooomuch.

'Can I order online?'

No. Unless you count as online sending an email to knickerdrawernotebook@gmail.com telling me what you need.

All books are unique. I make them for you and the people you tell me about. I prefer to think about you, so I need a couple of weeks to create a design, collate, collect and compose.

And don't come at me, young woman with camera, telling me I 'could sell so many more if I sold online'. I'm not a box-shifter, and I don't press a button to order more stock to sell. My primary goal is not just to sell stuff. I try to make one book a day which involves being a crafter and an artist, handling real materials while wondering. Those qualities of thoughtfulness and time are important for me to stitch into the books I make. And I would rather do that than make a shed load of cash from commodity sales thank you very much. (It was a damaging encounter and I've not forgiven her.)

And, consider this... the Knicker Drawer Books are conceived as a private space, 'off-grid'. Makes no sense then to buy online.

What did you do with Yours?

Bring back your Knicker Drawer Note Book to me at a stall to tell me how it's changing ... I've seen books with pages stitched, ribboned, noted, doodled upon, pictures of Fanny the hamster, and the cover loaded with charms ... and to say thank you, I'll slip between your pages a five pound discount card towards your next book. xx